This is a YouTube video titled "Navigating Parenthood and Emotional Growth: A Journey of Self Responsibility" featuring a monologue or personal reflection on parenting challenges, emotional fluency, and self-responsibility. The speaker discusses their experience with their 13-year-old child who resists emotional conversations, emphasizing the complexity of human relationships and the importance of supporting a child's individual path without guilt or control. The content is introspective and focused on personal growth and parenting.
I never blame my parents for every anything. I just think it's, it's. Humans are so complex and complicated. We're just all trying to do our best for each other. We're trying to do our best for our kids and knowing that, you know, we're going to make some mistakes along the way and they're going to have their journeys and paths too. And it's when you start to do this work on yourself and I think you'll really get this. It's like you become even more personally responsible for how you're showing up for your kids and really wanting them to have better, but also knowing you, you cannot do the work for them. Yes, right. And I've got a 13 year old who is like anti anything even remotely woo. Spiritual like, oh, that's so funny. Hard. Stop. He does not want to talk about feelings. It's such a big part of my work. He does not want to talk about feelings. From the time he was little, if he would cry, he would ask me to make it stop. Let me make it stop. My eyes are aching like so I'm just like, what kind of lessons did this little man bring to my world? Because here I am so passionate about emotional fluency and, you know, letting our emotions guide us and, and yeah, he just wants no part of it yet. I'm watching him get into behaviors to completely avoid his emotions. And I'm his mom, I'm not his coach. So figuring out how I'm going to guide his journey because he's meant to have a path on this planet while also not, you know, being hard on myself or going into a guilt trip like, oh my God, if I'd only known this or if I'd done this differently, then you have to. So being fully accepting that this is his journey, this is his path, what's my role in it? How can I be responsible for my stuff? How can I be showing up and taking care of me while also trying to make decisions to support him finding his path and also knowing I have no control over anything that's going to happen?
